I've not found a technique I like for really curly hair. Wavy to mildly curly I feel good about. Do you have a technique you like you would suggest I consider?

For the record this is the best I've done and I'm happier with it than any other attempt. But it's not a good as what's in my mind or the reference.

The reference for reference:

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I keep ending up with AI music in my playlist when exploring for me music. What is your workflow to avoid it? Searching DDG for me has been more bandwidth intensive than I like...

Some background. My favorite song is a song I haven't heard yet. And my appetite sways wildly. One month it's old school urban rap, the next it's kpop, and then Nordic death metal and so on.

I never know what I'll be in the mood for but I'll find a thread with a song I don't know and use it to build play lists to see what I find and sometimes I find trash gems that way.

This last time our friend group watched Eurovision 2026 together and some of those songs are bangers. One of them led to adding a few artists built off of playlists from that song I really liked, and they all ended up being AI... damnit!

Trying something a bit different with my brush work. Not really happy with how it turned out but it was a fun experiment.

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Brown skin is hard for me. Something I need more practice in which is why I selected this model. Plus her hair looked like it would be fun to paint, and it was!

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I think she likes you!

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Can you recognize her without reading her name? I'm still working on a stylized style that isn't photo realistic and more an expression of me.

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I treated the line work a bit differently here. More like a photo realistic and less like a drawing. Thoughts or feedback?

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The standard rules are to make the head and face larger particularly the eyes and mouth. How do you think this looks? Feedback?

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I'm trying to work on stylized drawings of people. I've not been happy with any past attempts. Let's see if I can get happy with this set of attempts. Any feedback?

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My last in the series. Though I may revisit them. I made the most alterations from the original, as you can see below. What do you think?

Reference:

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The reference was midday, I changed the time of day to dusk so it looked more like a great photograph and less like a postcard. And at least a few more hot air balloons left in me.

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Nope, I'm not over hot air balloons yet. To be fair this is only the second one, but I feel like it'll be at least multiple more.

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